Fort Mill Man Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Material Charges

by Shore News Network
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(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced the arrest of Kyle Frances Quintero, 37, of Fort Mill, S.C., on two charges connected to the sexual exploitation of minors. Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force investigators with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office made the arrest. Investigators with the Attorney General’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and York County Sheriff’s Office, all also members of the state’s ICAC Task Force, as well as the Fort Mill Police Department, assisted with this investigation.

 

Investigators received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) which led them to Quintero.  Investigators state Quintero distributed child sexual abuse material.

 

Quintero was arrested on September 23, 2021.  He is charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree (§16-15-405), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count.

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This case will be prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Office.


 

Attorney General Wilson stressed all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.


 

 

 

 

* Child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, is a more accurate reflection of the material involved in these heinous and abusive crimes. “Pornography” can imply the child was a consenting participant.  Globally, the term child pornography is being replaced by CSAM for this reason.

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